The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1876, Page 6

7 t 6 EEE THE DRAMA ABROAD. Alexandre Dumas’ New Play, “L’E- | trangere,” in Paris. | | are within the reach of every actor to empley. in fact, does maintain it by those simple means which | He ts a most painstaking and earnest student; his etudy al very properly tempered by a laudable ambition to suc- | | ceed; he has a keen appreciation of the true vocation AN AMERICAN ADVENTURES THE HEROINE, , Mr. Irving’s Appearance in Lon- don as Othello. Panis, Feb. 17, 1876. ‘A new play by alexandre Dumas cannot fairly be con- "idered in any other light than asa national event in P: He 18, perhaps, the greatest living dramatist in any country, if merit is to be judged by success, which is the only satisfactory test of st, He is certainly the greatest dramatist in France, and here the stage has a far higher interest than the Senate or the Bar. Nothing short of a revolution will call the attention of Parisians | to politics ; nothimg short of a wholesale massacre, ander circumstances of extraordinary atrocity, will nduce them to read the detalis of a criminal trial. fut tue mere announcement of a cowedy or a drama by Dumas, Anjier or Sardou 1s an event discussed over tvery chicken salad consumed ina country where all tat chicken salad who can afford it, Nor is the eunious interest aroused by dramatic writings among the Freneh people by any means unreasonable. They bave the best theatres in the world, and every French man and every French woman is born an actor or an act- ress, while the excellence of their theatres and of their acting contributes not @ little to the material wealth and prosperity of France. It must also be ad. mitted that French playwrights are THE KINGS OF THEIR CRAFT, and that they treat vexed questions of morality in a broad, effective manner, quite unknown to the Teuton pr Anglo-Saxon race, It is pot going too far to add that almost every reform in the Old World which has marked a deen suggested by a French play, Thus it was Moliére who purided the profession of medicine from quacks td pretenders, Beaumarchais who broke the last fet- ters of the feudal law, and Voltaire who demolished some superstitious in religion a8 contemptible as those of the Drutds, the very profession of a dramatist in France is viewed with peculiar honor; and there is no tie which can be won by any French citizen that commands such general respect as the designation of “Academician,” To this crowning glory of a well spent literary life M, Alexandre Dumas has recently at tained; and “L’Etrangére,”’ the new piece which has just beea brought out at the Frangais, is the firs dramatic effort he has made since his elevation For several months past. M. Dumas’ play has been the subject of a civil war at the Théatre Frangais. Part of the company of this national institution were bitterly opposed to M. Dumas, for gonius has always enemies aud detractors; another party, equally powerful, who had no personal disiike for M. Dumas, were scandahzed Moreover, at his piece, and shared an opinion, expressed by the late Emperor, that his Works were only fitted for the small theatres on the Boulevards, First, therefore, M. w era of progress and onlightenment has | | tm behalf of the tragedies of Shakespeare. “of an actor, in so far that his whole aim is directed at | presenting natural life, and only natural life, upon the stage; and during his career at the Lyceum he has carefully avoided attempting to relieve himself of any portion of the responsibilities of his protession by cx- | deavoring to shield his acting within the flimsy gauge curtain of stage accessory. Few tragedians have earned reputation in shorter time than Mr. Irving, | | and still fewer have deserved it, Step by step he has | | mounted the ladder, not without halting andan oc- | casional thréatening fall, but always with a steady per- | severance and high-minded motive in view which have at length earned for him secure foothold on the top- | most rungs as the leading tragic actor of the day in | London, It remains still to be seen whether this | proud position can be called permanent, (A SHAKESPEARIAN SURFRIP, For many weeks past, indeed before Mr. Irving's impersonation of the character of Macbeth bad been | Presented to the public, ft had been known that the | third Shakespearian revival at the Lyceum was to be the performance of “Othello,” the character of the | Moor being assigned to Mr, Irving. Various have been the conjectures as to the probable issue of this further attempt to enlist the sympathies of London playgoers It was | everywhere admitted that it rested with Mr. Irving Got threw up his part, then M. Delaunay followed sult, | and it was whispered that two ladies of the company | proceeded to active hostility before their rival claims could be appeased. Finally, afier weeks of expectation and disappointment, the curtam rose on the evening of the 14th inst, on a solemnity about as impressive as a coronation or a declaration of independence, THR CHIEF OF THR STATE, as it is the fashion to call MacMahon, was present at it, and all that is flush and fair in France, No dra- matic author since Moliére has ever been treated with such distinction as the author of “L’Etrangére,” and the only question which now arises is whether he has | \nereased or diminished his reputation by a work re- teived with such extraordinary favor, Hore isa briet summary of the plot:— Duke Maximin de Septmont is a worthless and rained young man who shares the nominal honors of a French ttle, signifymg nothing, with an unknown | remaining to be discovered to arrest some portion of number of other persons, M, Moriceau is a vulgar, | toolish old fellow who bas amassed a fortune by selling shoddy for more than it is worth in the Rue St. Denis, Ouke Maximin, hard pressed by his debts, wants money. ambitions, wants nobility. These two persons are brought together at the house of MRS, CLARKSON (L’RTRANGERE), an American adventuress, who sells her advice and good offices for round sums of ready money. A bargain is then struck between them, and Moriceau buys the Duke for his daughter Catherine as a brilliant and showy plaything, Mrs. Clarkson receives a moderate commission in the transaction in the shape of $150,000, more or less, from the parties concerned, and = there is an end of it In due course Catherine Moriceau discovers that she meant to bay a husband and bas only purchased aduke, She M. Moriceau, equally worried by stupid | is dissatisfied with her bargain and wants to keep com- | pany with one Gerard, a virtuous young engineer, with whom Mrs, Clarkson is in love. The American lady fights this question with her, and, in order to get a convenient battle ground, offers to give $6,000 to a charity of which the Duchess is patroness for the privi- lege of taking a cup of tea with her. The Duchess tells ber that if she can get presented in the regular way she Will receive her, “1 will present THE CHARMING STRANGER to you,” and he does so, The Duchess then gives her & cup of tea and breaks the cup to atoms alter she has frank out of it. Mrs. Clarkson, finding, indeed, that Duchess Maximin is unmanageable, rouses her hus- lousy, 4 ultimately brings about a series of in which Duke Maximin 1s killed by her own divorced husband, one Clarkson, a very rough diamond; and Mra, Clarkson (l’etrangere) having lost the game which she has played, leaves the Duchess to be ppy ever afterward with their mutual lover, Gerard, virtuous engineer. is isa fair, though necessarily a brief account ofthe ew play about which all Franco is talking, and ppinions are much divided about it, One of iis great faults in American eyes will be its mischievous tendency to revive much exploded nonsense about slaves and slave owners, which was never very true hor very likely ; and another objection to it is that it reopens a ridiculous scandal efreulated some months ago to the effect that American ladies in Paris were among the sptes of the police and the foreign diplo- mutista, The calumny was absurd, but there were also people absurd enough to believe it, and it is a pity that M. Alexendre Damas should have lent the sanc- tion of bis great name to it, Tae actiNG of “L’Etrangdre’’ was as near perfection as acting can be, and Got, Coquelim Cadet, Thiron, Croisette and Sarah Bernhardt would have saved the veriest non- Fense ever written from blame, so that their rendering of Dumas’ prose was really wonderlul; while the dresses of the ladies were quite triumphs of millinery and dressmaking. IRVING'S OTHELLO—THE SHAKESPRANIAN FUROR IN LONDON—IRVING'S ART PROGRESS—HIS CONCEPTION OF THE MOOR—A GREAT sUC- CESS—MRS, CROWE'S EMILIA, Loxvox, Feb. 15, 1876. Booking a seat yesterday for the frst-night perform- ance of Othello’ at the Lyceum Theatre, I jokingly Ventured the remark to the boxkeeper that Mr. Irving possibly relished the prospect of his forthcoming trial before what Mr. Tom Taylor aptly calls, “The Critics’ Tribunal of First Instavee,” “1 don’t think it matters much whieh way their jgdgment goes,” was the reply. “The critics were averse to Mr. Irving's conception of the character of Macbeth, and dealt out bard measure to it aceordiogly; but the pablic came here ali the same. The publie insists on judging of the performances of Mr. Irving tor themsetves,” The reply seems to me at once to fix the precise position which Mr. Irving at present occupies as @ tragic actor in the minds of the London piay-going public, The Official of the theatre was thoroughly sincere im what he said. There was not even a tinge of that pardon. able personal vanity in his remark which might be looked for in a man associated, in however remote de- gree, with a successful enterprise, Mr. reputation is Irving's that he shalts and maiming burts of adverse press criticism. And he is now so far made “Oh, very well,” observes the Duke, | alone tocarry the day. Without him the attempt would prove a failure, Your paying theatre-goer, pro- | vincial and metropolitan, both complain just now of a surfeit of Shakespeare over here. There had beon the illustrious Salvini, who had carried London by | storm during the last season at Drury Lane, acting | in Shakespeare. Phelps, of long-established fame, had been playing various Shakespearian characters at the Gaiety, Mr. Creswick also was just now bidding for the suffrages of transpontine Londoners, and was actually advertising ‘under the patronage of the Lord | Mayor and Sheriffs of London’? an opposition perform- ance of “Othello” for a certain day ata certain theatre not a hundred yards removed from the Lyceum, “Con- | densed and unconventional” (sic) the “Merchant of | Venice’? was the advertised pre-pantomime play at Cov- ent Garden Theatre. Altogether the outlook forthe management of the Lyceum was not especially cheer- ing. But Mr, Irving took in all the difficulties of the situation, and, manfully resolute, determined upon once more tempting Fortune. ANOTHER SUCCESS. Again Fortune has crowned him with the laure) wreath, albeit that she was this time heralded to the ceremony by the loud speaking golden trumpets of Fame, Monday night’s performance of “Othello” at the Lyceum was a great success, Measured by the gauge of | popular acclamation it was a theatrical triumph such as has not been witnessed in London since the days of Kean, Always more than cordial, upon this occasion the Lyceum audience gave way to its generous feelings with an exuberance of applause which at times was positively deafening. In all of Shakespeare’s acted plays—or at least in those of them resting upon ‘intensity of tragic action or im subtlety of conception of the poet’s meaning for their hold upon the public mind—it has always seemed to us that the player who essays the principal character on our modern stage does so at | a considerable disadvantage at the outset, In | | New York city—Messra. James Kirby, | time will be requir the first place be finds himself competing against whole yolumes of long established precedents govern- | ing the popular idea of what the dressing, reading and | acting of the character should be; and in the next the | whole of his audience happens to be famitiar with what | is to be performed, It is as though a youthful scholar | were reciting lines of Virgil to a master of the Latin | classics, The teast flaw in the recitation is at once dis- | cerned. The audience is the master; the player tho | youthful scholar, There is, moreover, no waiting for | he plot to be unraveiled, which has an influence of a | certain kind upon an audience assembled to witness a | new play, The plot is well known beforehand, Neithey is there any hidaen beauty in the dramatist’s writing the attent‘on concentrated upon the actor. The beau- ties of Shakespeare are familiar to all who can read; and the possibility of presenting an entirely original view of the dresses and stage accessories proper to the occasion and period is very remote, seeing that hosts of actorz have been attempting to do,this very thing with small success tor the past half century. Mr. Irving had to grapple with all these disadvantages, and by general consent he has very successfully conquered them. Mr. Irving's was in some sort a bad Othello, The Moor of | Shakespeare's creation, so violent in his love, so slow | in his suspicions, so terrible in his revenge, scems, in | our mind, to be associated with a man of age, dignity | and roundness—one whom the world might have called a genial fellow of middle age, until it grew to hate im | for the perpetrating of his schemes of revenge. | THE MARR-U | Mr. Irving presents his audience with a thin faced, | highly nervous, sallow complexioned young man who, but for the fault of color—and even this is scarce per- ceptible, for Mr. Irving, rejecting long established cus- | tom and following the example of Mr. Edmund Kean, paints us a face of walnut brown of his own concep- tiot—might very well have served, we think, as a | son tolago. One cannot imagine the Moor of the Lyceum stage having the power of boisterous passion with which Shakespeare seems to have endowed his Othello, Mr. Irving’s character consists wholly of a maa whom any one might very well take a dislike to at first sight, There is nothing frank, noble or confidipg about his appearance: he seems to be exactly what Mr. Irving’s Othello in fact is—an intensely sensitive, demontacally passionate person, with scarce a single re- deoming tinge of those genial, soldierlike qualities which makg us in a way in sympathy with the Moor of the play in spite of himseif, Yehemence and nature in tragic emotion the actor presents us with to the letter, but in trath and vigor in the delineation of the charac- ter Mr. Irving does seem to us to be deficient. Never- theless, bis isa grand impersonation, and in point of passionate expression is well nigh beyond reality, In the scene, for instance, between Othello and Iago in the third act, where the Moor halt throttles bis “an- cient,” declaring :— “——by the worth of mine eternal sonl, Thon hadst been better have been born a d Than answer my wak'd wrath, Mr, Irving's play was perfectly marvellous, The au dience weré perfectly aghast at {ts vividness, and seemed to look either for a dead Iago or a dead Othello as a natural result of the uncontrolled outburst of so much pent-up tary. The gestures, actions and facial actor expression of the daring this scene were picturesquely terrible, and equal anything of the kind ever presented on the stage. Mr. Irving may not equal Salvini in power of dignified self-control, which, after ail, is very ess tai to the proper presentation of “Othello” upon the stage, but he certainly equals the illustrious Italian in point of keeping the attention of his audience firmly fixed om what may be called the emotional part of his acting, ln scenes of the kind we have just mentioned Mr, Irving rarely fils to move bis aadience in an extraordinary degree. ORITICISNS. ‘The critics naturally disagree upon the detail of the play, but very little difference of opinion exists as to the merits of the performance as a whole, The dresses are elaborate and the scenery beautilul to a degree, It may interest play-loving people to know that Mr, Irving represents the Venetian general as a hero tanned With the brown of a Southern sky, with long Diack cugis falling below the neck, no turban resting upon bis head, no familiar white burnouse falling from his shoniders, but clad in the sumptnoas searlet and gold of the Venice of by-gone ages. There bas been no copying from the recently created Italian school in the play. Mr. Irving torbears from contemptuously er ing With his foot the prostrate Iago, aud eschews the example of Sulvini in cutting the throat instead of stabe bing Limsell, THE RMILIA. Mrs. Crowe—Miss Bateman that was—managed to for her impersona- tion of Emilia Ina well considered criticism of ber performance the Datly Telegraph says :— Mrs, Crowe’s was @ performance which could scarcely be excelled; for here we see the strong, passionate oul- burst of imdignation, and ail the time the facalties com- pletely under control, No excitement of thy moment destroys Emilia’s clearness of utteranee, it adds fuel to herfire When she hurls out her dendne: 1s as firm ata rock, She does not budge one inch, and the true test of force ts 118 quiek, sharp effect upon tue sympathies of the audi This welcome strength and patatal jon are not only » brated spe “A halter, pardon always tells,’ but seldom strikes home with such marked effect. In the last act, when Emilia bas to express the opposing feelings of indignation, horror ana almost hysterical despair, Mra. Crowe quite sur- passed herseli, Not a trace of mannerism or suggestion savable of maintaining this position of security, aud, , of trick could be jouud, The actress gaye hersell up to the passion of the scene, and showed unmistakably What could be done with Elnilia In these two scenes Mrs. Crowe obtained the truest and most legitimate ap- plause of the evening. It is not necessary to dwell upon the peformances of the other actors, mostly of London reputation ; but it 18 as well to record the fact that the character of Iago, played by Mr. Forrester, was one never before #0 ex- | cclleatly well studied, and rarely so well performed, HANDBALL AND RACKET. AN INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK. On the evening of the late anniversary of Washing- ton’s Birthday a large number of protessional and amateur players of these popular gaines met at MeQuade’s Court for the purpose of taking the prelim- inary steps toward holding en international tourna- ment in this city during the present spring. After a free interchange of opinion regarding the better plan of presenting the matter to the public an address was agreed upon, and the following provisional oficers and committee were elected:—Chairman, James Dunn, Brooklyn; vice chairman, Denis Burns, Now York; treasurer, ¥. J, Meagher, New York; secretary, Bernard McQuade, New York, Committee, William F. Banke, J. F. Leaby, Thomas Norton, Robert M. Dore, Edward Connolly, Owen McKeogh, P. Fitzpatrick, | Jobn Leinahan, William Ryan, James Johnson, Brook- lyn—Messrs, Philip Casey, Thomas Currey, Richard Townsend, James Dunn. Wiliaimsburg—Mr, Thomas Cook, Hartein—Mr, Patrick Moore, Newark, N. J.— Mr. Timothy Ryan, Paterson, N. J.—Captain’ W. H. Dunphy. Since that time the abeve gontiemen have been ac- | tively eugaged in arranging the necessary details for the successiul issue of the tournament, and hope in less than a fortnight to be able to an- nonce. the permanent national — organization. They have trausmitted invitations to the — va- | mous handball racket clubs throughout the United States, Great Britain and Canada, asking their co-operation, and already the responses received aro of the most encouraging and gratitying nature. Many valuable prizes will be offered tor competition at the two games, and there ts not the least doubt but the number of players that will assemble in the metropolis to take part in the tournament will be equal to any like reunton, not excepting the Chess Congress held in this city during the year 1867. ‘As at pregent designed the tournament will open on Easter Monday, April 17, so that all the interveniig for @ complete organization Meanwhile all information can be obtained from and donatious received by the secretary, Mr. Boruard Mc- Quade, No, 404 Madison street, New York, GAMRS THIS WREK, Philip Casey, of Brooklyn, and Thomas Cook, of Williamsburg,’ have agreed to play. James Dunn, of Brooklyn, and B. MeQuade, of New York, the best out of seven games of handball for $200 a side, series will be decided in the Madison Street Court on Tuesday next, and the second in the court, on Hoyt and Douglass streets, Brooklyn, on Thursday, Much interest is centred in the result, On Thursday afternoon, in the Brooklyn Court, there will also be played the deciding series of games in the $200 match now pending between James Casey and Bernard McQuade, At the last meeting the latter won the majority of games. PEDESTRIANISM. WESTON’S SECOND WALKING FEAT IN LONDON— ANOTHER ENGLISHMAN DEFEATED. Loxvoy, Feb. 19, 1876. Not satisfied with what he considered vnly a partial success a week ago, when he accomplished 110 miles instead of the self-Imposed 115, the great American walker has sought to redeem his reputation by attempt- ing a performance still more herculean, and calculated to demonstrate, beyond the shadow of a doubt, the ex- traordinary nature of his powers of endurance, the de_ sire to prove which was one of his principal objects in coming to England. He complains that a fair and im- partial trial was not given to him in his own country. However this may be, it is certain that he is perfectly satisfied with the manner in which ho has been treated by the English sporting public, and he makes no secret ot his partiality for the mother country, Having chal- Jenged any pedestrian to walk against him for forty- eight consecutive hours, and announced that the mini- mum distance which he intended to travel in that time was 180 miles, he started ata quarter to ten P. M., on Tuesday last, his opponent being Alexander Clark, of London, THE PASTEST WALKER IN ENGLAND, who recently did fifty miles in 9b. 24m, It was evi- dent from the beginning that Weston meant to do what be had promised. The start was a very quiet and easy one, Clark’s first mile being fimshed in 11m. 24s. and his antagonist’s in 12m. 5s. The judges were the same gentlemen of the English press who acted on the pre- vious occasion, and Benson’s chronograph was again used to mark the time. A strong body of police rigidly enforced the prohibition of smoking in the lower part of the hall, and the absence of cigars and pipes conduced greatly to Weston’s comfort. Neither ot the two men stopped for wore than a lew minutes until the fifty-fifth mile, when Clark retired, overcome by the same difficulty that defeated Perkins in the first match—via, sore- ness of the feet, At any rate, that was his version; but there were suspicious rumors that Perkins’ trainers had bribed Clark to stop, in order to prevent him from achieving & greater feat than the sixty-five miles of the former. Thi specimen of an evil which Is one of the consequences of purely professional pedestrianism among a certain class of English sporting men, the better portion of whom have, oa the other band, a admiration for Weston on account of his love of ath- Jetics purely for their own sake and his consistent re- | fusal to walk for stakes. WESTON’S WALKING. ‘The American continued his steady, indomitable pac- ing up to bis ninety-first mile without stopping more than one hour and eighteen minutes altogeth His 100th mile was accomplished im exactly twenty-three and a balf hou:s trom the time of starting, and at balf- past eleven Wednesday night he took his first r sleeping for about three hours and forty-tive mi About « quarter past three on Thursday Cbg | Wos- ton started again, fresh and vigorous, and at half-past eight requested the band to play “God Save the Queen,”” himself accompanying upon the bugle for about halfa mile. By noon he had traversed 139 miles. Weston accomplished the walk of 180 miles in forty- eight hours. At the close of the race he was quite fresh and apparently able to continue for twice the dis- . The time occupied by his rests was altogether out seven hours during the stop He caused. much merriment when lying on his couch by chatting and joking and bantering his slow negro servant, tell- ing the latter to appoint a day for his own ful and he (Weston) would undertake to have the ready; also that when that nigger died he would be late for the resurrection, Great enthusiasm prevailed. The last twelve miles were done at an average of jess than thirteen minutes. At the close of lis undertaking the band played “The Conquering Hero,” ladies waved their handkerchiefs and pre- sented the pedestrian with bouquets. Thirty thousand people were present. Weston won all hearts by bis aflable, unassuming and genlemanly demeanor, juily acknowledging the plaudits of the assembi: ten o’cloek he addressed the audience, saying that be and prejudiced against the British by the ‘of America, but he now boldly declared h be had in the last eight years walked . n the States, he vever bada fair and im- partial (rial till now, He did not wish to be designated foreigner; he was, anyhow, an American cousin. He thanked with emotion the judges, the press, his hos! also Mr. Ivanort, of the American Traveller, who hi spent much time and trouble in preparations; eoin- plimented tbe band, which bad, by ite inspiriting strains, tuterially helped him to win race, This oration was vociiorously cheered, and at its close Weston played on the cornet “God Save the Queen,” accompanied by the bund. He was then car. ried out triumphantly on the shoulders of Jim Mace and Joe Goss, lollowed by a tumultuous crowd, Stat tor, the bycictiist, kindly attended all through to jestrian’s wants The sseerably consisted of Eng- , Americans, Frenchmen and Germans, fF. P, Weston ‘having challenged ail England to, duce a man to ran or make the best of bis way for #ey- enty-live hours against his (Weston’s) walking for the same time, and also offering to give any man in England filty miles start in @ seventy-tve hours’ journey, Mr. . Nicols has aceepted the offer aud will, on Tuesday next, produce aman that has never walked a public mateh—for the supple reason that he could never get an opponent, to go far enough—to take thi start.@nd another gentleman has made a for Martin, of Maidstone, or C. Rowell, of to make the best of their way. ambridge, SPORTING EVENTS ABROAD. Arrangements have been made at a meeting of com- manding officers of volantecr corps representing Epg- land, Scotiand and Wales, for a great rifle mateh among the best shooting battalions Supposing that fifty bat- talions compete, it was decided that the prises’ should consist of one of £100, one of £00, one of £40, one of £30, one of £20, and that there should be an additional prize for every or fraction of ten battalions com. peting, in which case there would be a proportionate increase in the amount of each prize, The contest will take place between the Ist and 15th of May. A trotting match came ol on Tuesday at Coombe Hill, midway between Gloucester aud Cheltenham, Mr. T. White matened his pony against the pony be- longing to Mr, F. Arkell to trot a mule for £100 a side Mr. White's pony, about three weeks ago, boat Mr. Arkell’#ia a hali-miie ran, and (he present mateh was the outcome of it Mr. White's was the favorite, 2 to L tw & considerable awount being invested, won easily by nearly 00 yards. The Cambridge crew may now be said to be finally setiled, no further alteration being anticipated, It is composed as follows:—1, P. W. Brancker, 11 stone 7 Tus; T, W. Lewis, 11 stone 11 Ibs.; W. B, Close, 1 stone 13 Ibs; T.'E. Hockin, 12 stone 10 tbs. ; le Pike, 12 stone 9 ibe. ; C. Gurdon, 12 stone 10 Ibs ; B. Rhodes, 12 stone 7 Ibs; C.D. Shafto ai 12 Ibs, and G. L. Dayis (coxswain), 6 stone EEES NEW YORK: HERALD}.SUNDAY) MAROE;.5.d876~QUADRUPLE “SHEET. THE INTER-COLLEGIATE REGATTA. WHAT WESLEYAN COLLEGB 18 DOING—THE PROBABILITIES STATED AS TO HER PARTICI- PATION—RACING PROSPECTS. Muppiurows, March 4, 1876. Occasionally of late, especially while the muscles of the sturay athletes of Harvard, Yale and other col- leges were receiving strength from their exercise in the gymnasium, the thoughts of such athletes have turned toward Wesleyan and its ambitious men of might, Captain Cook has two men at work, and un- doubtedly his crow for the Springfleld regatta has been selected. Harvard, too, is working hard. But Wesleyan. the only college lett to represent Counecticut in the Inter-Collegiate Regatta at Saratoga Lake, has done and isdoing nothing. Perhaps the case is even a little worse than this, Perhaps she will do nothing in 1876 0 far as figuring in the Saratoga regatta 1s concerned. If this should be the case thousands of admirers of the plucky oarsmen she bas produced during the years of 773, ‘74 and °75, aud who ha high hopes of her future, will be sadly disappointed. The disappointment is not wholly improbable, Thus far there has been this peca- larity about Wesleyan—she bas left the selection of her men for the crew until quite late; aud then the men have not abandoned themselves so exclusively to training as in other colleges. The reason for this probably is that the faculty, although approving of boating, rigidly exact study trom the boating men and frown on “cuts.” There has been one notable instanee of bigh training in Wesleyan, which is too notorious to make it necessary to mention dates, but it was excep- tional Some of the reasons for supposing that Wes- | leyan may go to Saratoga are:— First—Captain J. W. Whitney, of last year’s cre who has been looked tous the probable Captain for 1576, 1s undecided as to whether he will be able to participate, for private reasons, in the race, ‘Second—Uutside ‘of Captain Whitney only three of the crew of 1875 ure in college, viz. :— ‘17, who farsh, 187 pulled in 1874 and 1876, aud who was stroke jast y Jack, 1878, and Sewell, a substitute in 1575, Third—The men {rom whom the crew are to be se- lected are much lighter than those of previous years and less “stocky,” and the leaders do not want to pull unless there i@ “a good, square chance to win,” as Sewell states ft, Fourth—There is some discontent with the manage- ment of previous Saratoga regattas, Fifth—There is a belief umong some that even as late as this, from the indications of dissutistaction or lack of heartiness manifested by the withdrawal of the re- tiring New England colleges from the coming contest, there is a prospect of af organization im New Englai of a new association tu 1876. If the crew loses its present Captain it is evident that it will be difficult to replace him at this late ho with @ man sufficiently experienced to do justice to the position, amd there are few places in which experience countg for more than ina she!l. The reason concerning Captain Whitney individually 1s, perhaps, as powerful as affecting the regatta pros: pect, although there {s considerable weight attached to the other objections advanced, About thirty men are practising in the gymnasium, ‘A majority work ouly an hour per day as yet—viz., from six to seven o’cloc! in the morning. A few of the more enthusiastic work about three hours, No dict is adopted vy any, aud there will be none adopted until the spring term. Those who have been looked at as probable members of the crew will train down to between 150 and 160 pounds. Last year there was one man in the boat weighing about 190. Captain Whitney, as regards an abstemious dict aud general exercise, may be said to be constantly in training. When on the last strain he loses only about two pounds. He is a great believer m walking, and thinks pedestrianisin as good as gymnasium work, the legs being thereby strength- ened. For reasons named be bas not trained hard. Some of the probable crew will train down trom Otteen to twenty nda. There will probably be no Fresh- man crew this year. Much of the muscle for the shell Nes among the ‘*Freshies,”’ As for boats, there are two University shells. The one built by Elliot, in 1874, is used in practice, There | Navy to contribute to the prize fund of the Centennial Regatta, Appreciating the exertions that are being made and the expenses to be incurred in giving this Tegatta, the Bachelors, at a very large meeting on Fri- day even! ‘unanimously voted $100 to the prize fund of rovegine Aa ‘and, what is far better, their good wishes for the snecess of the regatta accompanied their donation, It all the other clubs throughout the | country responded in a like manner the committee will be able to give such money prizes to professional oars- men as will induce the best of them to go into training tours are all guaranteed, and it remains for the rowing clubs of the country generally to follow the good ex- ample of the Bachelors to secure all that is needed for the prizes for professional oarsmen. It 18 understood that many of the number will give individual subscrip- tions in addition, AMATEUR OARSMEN. New You, March 4, 1876. To vax Epivon or Tax HeRap:— Permit me to occupy a small space in your valuable journal. A correspondent in Thursday’s paper writes about “amateur boatmen’’ and attempts to cast a slur on Charles E. Courtney, who is ‘one of the strictest amateurs” in the country, not “the strictest,’? as “Amateur” claims the Hxnatp of Sunday last stated, which statement of his Is erroneous. Mr. Courtney never severed his connection with the Union Springs Bout Club so far as Iam aware of. It was not neces- sary for him to do so, Ho was entered from the Nautilus Boat Club, of this city, last year for tho Har- lem Regatta, because he was and js 4 member of that club, He never, 80 fur as 1 can ascertain, offered wo row James Riley tor $1,000 on Seneca Lake in 1874. ‘The intimation of such an agreem as that to which “Amateur”? refers betweer Riley and Courtney in 18T4 ig as unjost as it is unmanly, and uot worthy of any fair Chinkiny auteur’ Oarsman's consideration. | Lam an amateur, and if Ido not, Mr, Editor, wish to | adopt un assumed signature, itis because I desire over my OWN ame and in the name of mv what I and my associates regard 98 a misstatement and reply to 4B UnWarrantuble Insibualion against “one of the strictest amateurs’? in Ube couutry and a respected member of the boat club ot wh 1 pave the honor to | be an officer, LEWIS E, ROUSE, tary Nautilus Club, 8 THE CENTENNIAL REGATTA. | New York, March 2, 1876. To rue Epiror oF tar Hreary: Our great American culleges are at present preparing | for the great boat races to take place at the Centennial Exhibition in a few months, Would {t not be well for those colloges to challenge their English rivals in their intellectual progress as well as their physical? We are sometimes told that we have colleges whose curriculum of studies is not up to the standard of the European universities; that we are a too practical people and not over willing to search out the beauties of ancient elo- quence. 1 think that it would be very proper if some of our colleges would Irt these people know that the American 1s not behindland in classical lore, though he is practical. dF. F. BOATING NOTES. The Argonauta crew will get back to Bergen Poiat | about the end of the month. The annual meeting of the Harlem Regatta Associa- tion will take place to-morrow night, There fs little doubt but that England and Ireland will be well represented in American waters this year. The Newark boat clubs expect to make matters lively on the Passaic before the sammer is out. The Atalanta Club may have their crew of last year, with the exception of Gunster. Boyd, Chambers, Bagnall and Nicholson will, in all probability, compose one of the English professional crews in the Centennial Regatta. : Dave Roache and William Walsh will row double seulls year from the Nautilus Club. ‘A scullers’ race, with Riley, Wilbur Bacon, Rathborn, Myers, Bainbridge and Ackerman as contestants would prove one of the excitements of next season, Morris, Luther, Scharff und Seibert or Kaye will the professtonal race. There are some rumors of a crew coming from Aus- tralia to contend for the four-oared championship of are in the boat house a barye also, and each class has a | the worla. Look out for them when they come, good shell. Itis not expected that a new boat will be built outright this year, but probably the barge will be sold, as there is some little fault to be found with it, and it will be replaced by another, It is intended to havi Trace among the classes on the Connecticut early in spring. Recent; a tine silver cup was received from an alumnus, eon 4 was sent as a prize for the crew which shall turn outin good form the earliest. ‘The races will probably be rowed according to pre- vious custom, tne best two out of three being the victor. cup is of safficient value to induce the men to se work early, The sélection of the crew to pull at Sari will probably be made in about four weeks If Captain Whitney will accept a re-election he will probabiy receive the hoor. ‘The mention of the English college boatmen awakens considerable enthusiasm, On the proposed conditions juates will pull,'and if Wesleyan can get in the race she thinks that she will stand chance, In her crew she could count Rogers ('78), Eustis (’74) and Downs (’75), There is money enough to enable Wes- Jeyan to go to Saratoga if she so wishes. 1t is well known it she wanted to go to New Londo and was somewhat disappointed at the result of the Convention in New York. If she is on hand her quarters will be at Arnold’s, between Princeton and Harvard, The propositions entertained Jast year by the alumni of pacclrgy, Midi gg a cottage at Saratoga has been abandoned, Wesleyan leans tow- rd a New England association, and her belief that ery rg there will be such an association in 1877 bas probably haa its influence in this matter. Concerning the boats: 8 there Is little else worth mentioning. The interest im football and base | > ball is in the ascendant. Football is comparatively new to the college, Last year the twenty made a far fight with Yale in New Haven, but the game was experi- mental, and was played for the purpose of ascertaining the colleges’ prospects in this direction. The boys learned, however, on that occasion that their con- Scientious scruples on the point of “sbouldering’’ were too conscientious, as judged by the Yale standard. ‘The twenty for 1876 have been selected. Practice has been kept up all winter when weather permitted, and the team will begin the season with contidence,’ The twenty are as follows. tain, WS, Winans; F. R. Sherwood, Hal Sew. bert Van Sands, Webster Goss, E.'H. Mansfield, C. P. Marsh, W. k. Ward, C. P. Coburn, D. H. Jones, L. G, Le Bar, W, D, Leon: ard, Dan Robertson, A. C. Atkins, W. B. Herrick. Captain Winans headed the twenty ‘last season. The base ball nine is captained by J. W. Whitney, 1876. The arrangement is as tollows:—J. W. Whitney, catcher; J. S. Colman, pitcher; D. Robertson, shurt stop; D. FE. Da jecond HL Jack, first base; C. base; ©. E. Bacon, third base; J. N. Brown, lett eld; L. F.’ Boner, centre field; L. G. Le Bar, right feld the athletic Le Bar will probably enter, The programme not yet been made out, ver. ROWING. ACTIVITY AMONG THE PROFESSIONAL OARSMEN OF BOSTON—PREPARATIONS FOR THE CEN- TEWNIAL REGATTA—THRE FAULKNER-REAGAN AND CITY POINT CREWS. Bostow, March 2, 1876, Two of the leading professional boat clubs of this city—the City Point and the Boston—are anxious to have the honor of representing the State at the Cen- tenniai Regatta, and in order to settle the question of superiority bave agreed to test their relative merits in two races—the first, tn gunwale-rigged fours, to be pulled on the 17th of May; the second, in shells, fours, on the 24th of Jane, TUR TWO CREWS. The City Point crow are a powerful set of hard workers, invariably victorious when pulling in gun- wale-rigged boats, The four will be the same which has represented the club for several searons, and no change will be made im their positions ‘They wre seated as follows:—Bow, Scanlin; 2, Wig- le; 3, Landry; stroke, W. J. Higgins (Captain), The ston club crew is the well known an four, Which beat the Biglin-Riot crew last summer and has won the Fourth of July snell race for the last three years. This is their make up;—Bow, George Faulkner (Captain) ; 2, MeGahey; 3, Mahoney; stroke, P. Rea- os a DESCRIPTION OF THE MEN. Reagan beat the Californian Plaisted last spring in a two-mile —, mateh for the champion- ship of Now nsene, and he, with Faulk- ner, will pull m t foubles, and perhaps the pair-oar race at Philadelphia. The t mon are both y! looking, Mahoney i to taking man jp the boat—deep.tn t ‘and with @ fine clear eye of true Irish biue, The crew have pulled together several seasons, and it i be safely said that no four wii wt the Contenmial so thoroughly in with each oth they are, Last sum- mer, ‘when training for the Fourth of July race, their discipline was something admirable. They would come swinging up to Blaikie’s boat house on the Charles, after a seven miler ata good stilt pace, barely get their shell housed, when Faulkuer would sing out “Take dowa the pair-oar, Stroke and Number 2,” aad outhe would go With the pair for a mie of coaching, INCIDENT. As an example of the control under which Faulkner has his men, during the foar-mile race in which the Shawmut and Bigiio crews pulled last Fourth of July, at the beginning of the third mile, when his crew was leading, No. 2 broke his oar and st the stroke. “sump out, McGahey,” shouted Fuulkner, and with- ‘out a moment’s hesitation No. 2 obeyed. The shell righted and with three oars they pulied to the stuke- boat where the Bighus caught them on the turn and a foul occurred in which the Bostous lost ther rudder. In spite of this aaditional mishap they got away first, ad with only stroke to keep up the port side rowed in winners, beating the Biglins by over fiiteen lengths. THR RACKS OP NEXT MAY and June will deeide which of thess two crews ts to represent the Stat Both are quite contident, and both say that whichever Wins will go to Philadelphia with the others’ support and de ite to Ww what the “Hub” did a century ago—a long lead over the English. mien, THR BACHELORS’ BARGE CLUB, OF PHILADEL- | PHIA, SETS A GOOD KXAMPLE. Porcapenema, March 4, 1876 The Bachelors’ Barge Club, of this city, bas the honor of being the first club outside of the Schuylkill = ‘The New York Stock Exchange Rowing Club is about to be represented in the Harlem Regatta Association. Tom Keator bas four for the Harlem for next season, with Devoo, Scranton aud somebody else to row bebind him in the boat. THE NEW YORK YAcuT CLUB, WAS THE LAST ELECTION FAIRLY CONDUCTED? To Tux EpiTor oF THe, Heratp:— Now that all the excitement and most of the talk about the recent election for Commodore of the New York Yacht Club has passed away, will you allow me # few lines in your paper to state one or two truths in regard to said election ? Upon the evening in question (the election), the usual formalities of business being passed, tellers were ap- pointed, and the club—i, ¢, the yacht owners présent— proceeded to vote for a Commodore for the ensuing year. Yachts being called in order, it was announced that fitty yachts were represented and | had responded to the call to vote, The tellers thon an- nounced that one ballot had no name for Commodore | on it, that they had therefore declared it an irregular | ballot aud thrown it out, announcing as the baliot—For | Commodore, 25; against, 24. r Now, | would ask by what right or authority did | these tellers in this arbitrary manner throw out this ot which they called irregular ? Did it not represent | the ballot of a yacht owner there and then present? | Had be not @ right to vote in blank, a piece of blank | paper put in by the owner of the yacht so representea— | @ vote for John Smith or any one else? Whether by | design or accident was it not to all intent and purpose | a vote, and should it not have been counted as a ballot cast {or such yacht, the owner boing alone responsible? | Phe vote was then declared “twemy-tive” against | “twenty-four,’’ making forty-nine votes instead of fift; as had been previously announced by the tellers, T | poor yacht, owner, ballot and all overslaughed, not even recognized, considered ag not present and irreg- | ular! Now, Mr. Editor, I contend that the blank paper ballot, the half nnished ballot, the ballot for John Smith or any one else, represented the yacht which ‘was (by its owner) then and there present as much en- titled to a couptas were any of the other yachts, | Therefore, filty ballots being cast, the tellers proclaim twenty-five a majority! Great shades of Daboll! Twenty fivea majority out of tifty! No, Messrs. Tellers, with all your arithmetic you cannot make it out. | That your decision was eminently gratifying, if not a | surprise to the gentleman presiding at the meeting, | isnot to be wondered at When the next ballot for Vice Commodore was called a protest was made, and the ballot just bad was pronounced by a member (and | very Justly #0, too) a « Dallot.’? Such was the haste of the tellers to close the polls | that not even five minutes was allowed for a late comer, as was evinced in the less than scant courtesy ex: tended to the owner of the Columbia, who, leaving his | professional engagements for the very purpose of giv- ing his vote, was ruled out. feew, then, upon the question of election? Fifty bal- lots were cast, and the tellers, if they knew aught of parliamentary Tues, would have announced “twenty-five, twenty-four and one blank.’ They had no right to do otherwise. The fact then stands thus:—That the Com- ‘k Yacht Club is elected, not by a majority of the yac election, but vy the unprecedented aud arbitrary deci sion of the tellers, who declared that twenty-five was a majority of fifty! If this is to be the way of carrying elections in the | futare | predict ere long the division of or the break- | ing up of the New York Yacht Club, FAIR PLAY, RIFLE SHOOTING. On the 2lst of February last Captain Ralph Wood Kenyon, of the rifle team of the Sophomore class of Columbia College, issued a challenge to the Continental Insurance Company’s team to shoot a match. Captain Lloyd Roberts, of the Continental, responded that the team from the Continental office had disbanded and would engage in no more contests, but stated that he would select a team of six from among the clerks of the various insurance companies throughout the city who would shoot a mateh with @ tqam of a similar number to be picked from all Columbia Coilege, Colambia College bas as yet made no answer to Captain Roberts’ communication, but i 18 thought that they will necept the: challenge. Should they do so the in- surance companies will be represented vy the follow- ing gentlemen:—L. Roberts and @. H. Hope, ot t Continental; F. M. Parker and G. W. Jones, of the Citize! and W. R. Hobart and J. H. Hitchcock, of the Home, It is Mr. Roberts’ intention to form a permanent organization to represent the insorance business in competing with teams [rom other branches of commercial business during the centennial matches next September, Ww ATERLOO COURSING MEETING. The great Waterloo coursing campaign of 1876 has concluded, and for the fifth time the cup bas been won by Irish greyhounds. Bell’s Life describes the deciding course as follows: — ‘ Amid a scene of great excitement Lord Glendyne and Donald, representatives of ireland and Scotland, were let go on a nice piece of grass, and perhaps no better #pot could bave been picked for the decider of so im- portant au event, A are was, as usual, driven across the Wehins, and little time was lost in marsiailing the crowd into proper order for seeing. At last they their journey toa rare piece of fur, and locked togettier for eome distance, when the gradually drew away, aud was up Urst a good x'hs, and kept bis place’ for the second turn, tll the hare bent ruund to Lord Glendyne He, however, made little use of puss. before, in a bit of str Donald persevered past, and, ruining in a clever tm her with bis hare, never gave an opening, bat pat an end to a spleudidly ran course with the death. Thus finished one of Lhe most decisive victories ever scored for a Waterloo. . the bfich Honeymoon was sold to W. H. Clark on night of the entry and draw for the Waterloo Cup 500 guineas, with ‘contingencies, to be delivered up er the cup conte: Mr, Giark at the same time pur. vased Weather for 160 gaineas. Donald, the win- lel wer of the been suld w Mr. Dot since his wistorr, aia hleh Daura, _ for the great aquatic carnival. ‘The prizes for the ama- club to correct | most likely represent Pittsburg at the Centennial in | BOWLING. ty — PROGRESS OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP CONTESTS, The leading bowling clubs of Now York and Williams- | burg, having formed an association known as the “‘Na- tional Bowling Association,” and arranged to play ® ' series of match games to determine the question of championship, a largely increased interest in the game has been the result. Each club that joined the asso- ciation has already increased its membership, and the interest in the play bas acquired a considerable impe+ tus, so that now the members of the several clubs in the association number upward of 600, and practice games are held every night in the week at the different alleys, The programme of the championship was drawn up ‘and agrecd to at @ convention of delegates to the clubs held during the closing week of last year. The main features of the rules for the championship matches were that each club should play every club .u the asso. ciation a contest coi of the best two and three guines, to be played bya icked team of ten men, to play ten frames each in each game, the winner of tho ‘majority of matches to be ‘declared the cham| bow- lers for the year. The emblem ef championship,which 8 to be used to the winniwg club by the associa- tion, is to be e ‘twn-pin’’ iu silver, appropri- ately engraved. The opening e of the series was played on January 5 at the b: uarters of the Empire Ciub, of New York, on Third avenue, it being between the selected teams of the Empire and Terpsichore clubs, of New York. The game was won by the Em- pires, Since then match games have followed in quick ‘succession, the interest in the contest increasing with: each game. The following is the record of the games played up to the present time, the first named being the winner j-—~ Total Club, Club. Score. Ma. Jan, & Empire, Terpsichore,... 1,639 74 Jan. 7. Athlet Pin Knights... 1,342 . WC. . +. LyAaT Jun. 10, Terpsichore 1,375 . Athletic... 1,624 Jan, 13, National... 1,951 EEzHE Jan, Lk Germania... 1,447 1415... 39 | Sau! 172 Nassaw....1 1,685 1,435 104 | Jan, 19. Empire .... 1,460 142538 Jan, 19, Germania... 1,616 1,490 1,770 1,610 160 1.399 1,299 100 | L134 104880 | 1,540 1,505 35 | Vout Ugo 7 | 1,519 1,385 134 | 1,669 1,613 146 | 13520 1420 100 | Las 1,901 24 | Feb. 1.687 1,822 © 135 . Load 149945 . 1,664 1,524 30 Feb. 17, Pin Knights 1,648 1,507 141 Feb, 19, Terpsicbore 1,534 14% 117 Feb. 23. Mutual... 1,568 1373180 Feb, 24 National... 1,468 Musual,. 1,438 20 | Feb. 25. Atbletic.... 1,737 Terpsichore.... 1,355 382 | March L Terpsichore 1,409 Nassau... 14645 March 2. Athletic. 1,757 Empire. 643 114 March 3. Mutual,,... 1,423 Pin Kot 5 485 38 The following is the aummary of games played :— ——Matches——. ——— Games—— Played. yas ayer Pla ie Empire... 2 hae 3 1 2 8 3 Athletic .. 4 2 2 9 5 2 1 1 6 2 2 0 2 8 3 2 1 1 8 3 2 2 o 5 4 2 2 0 7 6 THE THIRD AWENUE SAVINGS BANK. YESTERDAY'S REVELATIONS—-THE EXPERT ACCOUNTANTS STILL TRYING TO SOLVE ARITHMETICAL PUZZLES. The examination in the case of William A. Darling and Spencer K. Green for having, as alleged, falsely verified as to the condition of the Third Avenue Savings Bank, was resumed yesterday, before Justice Duffy, at the Tombs Police Court. The defendants were both present, with their coun- sel, The examination began at a little after three o'clock, and searcely had the first question been asked when an argument sprang up between counsel which lasted for sevoral minutes. Mr, Fitch, who appeared for the depositors, disputes every inch of ground, Colonel A. Sellers, au expert accountant, was again called, and the defence objected to the introduc- The chief point elicited was that an item of $113,127 56 in the resources of the bank, as interest due and un- | collected, was fraudulent and, in fact, a total I which should have beew entered on the debit side protit and loss, thus lessening the nominal resources of the bauk by about $226,000. In to an ob tion by aafecdants’ counsel, as to eae ve on the with on the sent to the Bank Superimn- tendent, rr. ‘itch spoke at some iength and complained of these objections on the ft of the defence. Mr. Dittenhoefer replied that he had made a legal objection, and, instead of showing to the Court ‘that it was not competent, the plaiutiils’ counsel was talking bancombe with a view, possibly, of infi public and repeating the bout which there was not thus far a scintilla of rool against the defendants. Colonel Sellers testified that the item on the books of $113,127 56 was an item of suspended account and should have gone into profit aud loss; it was notecor- rect to report it as an asset, Tn answer to a question by Mr, Sewell witness said ‘that as the books stood the debit balance cor. rect; the witness then read olf the parry from the debit and credit side of the books :-—~ $16,744 86 000 00 Bonds aod mortgages. Call Profit and loss. Deposits... Total Witness are correct; the tures are not correct; there isan error; the cash is overstated by $106,000 by reason o @talse eutry December 31, 1870; the proof | dud not agree with the general ledger; there is a di! between the and individual ledgers; don't know which is correct; on the proof books of the fourth ledger there is an entry of errors under 1870, of 7 95. By counsel—Look at the report of the 14th March and state whether the interest credited the 14 of Jan- Pent | is footed up as a portion of the liabilities of Witness—It is not. Here Counsellor Sewell argued the point as to which book told the trae story. Counsel for the prosecution said he could prove that the entries in the general ledger were false. Mr, Benjamin A. McDonald, the expert accourtan' was recall He gave an elaborate description keeping books in a savings bank, and how the smallest error could be traced to \ts source. He could show ‘that the diserepancy of $66,718 28 which was discovered in the books of the bank in 1871 bad existed years be- fore. Before this matter was gone inw, however, Mr, Wakeman asked for an adjournment on account of ill- nese ja bis family. ee dues justice 'y sai was to beas ‘as possible to counsel in the matter of Tavares, but he begged to remind them that all further requests for @ postponement could not be granted. The case was then set down fora farther hearing for M next, at Yorkville Police Court, at balf-past two P. Among the entries on the Auditor's book the fe ee were found:—“January, 1869—Dr. Mosley, editor, pai for writing articles on bebalf of the bank, $——; Apri 30, 0 ee ag cs ‘&e., &e., 8K. G., $1,000; faren 28 |. H. Lyon, 104 cigars, $100," THE WALKILL BANK DEFALOCATION. Another interesting little episode in the career of ex-Senator William M. Graham, ex-president of the Waikill National Bank, has been brought to light by means of the testimony now being taken before Regise ter John W, Little, of No. 4 Warren street, ia the suit of the United States goverament against the estates of Graham and Charles H. Horton, the former cashier of the Walkill ik, for the full amount of the deficiency in the accounts of the bank at the time of its failure, While Grabam was nt of the bank he was once invited Into a gaml 4 geen on Broadway, near Twenty-sixth street, in this city, and during his play lost about $30,000, He paid a few thousands of the debt with the money which he had about lis person, and then made out a check for the balance, about $23,000, on the Walkill National Mank, apd certided it by writing across its tace “Good, W. M. Graham, Prerideut.” The check was immediately forwarded to the bank for payment, and Graham was kept tn an intoxicated condition im the gambling saloon watil 1t could be presented, in order Ww not give him an opportunity to change his mind and withdraw the check, Horton, however, refused te pay the money until he could see Grabat Then the Scapper? tof the faro bank, who had introduced Gravam to the proprictor, aud who kuew be would not receive bis “whack” of the gains unless the money was paid, threatened to expose Grauam for entering such a place if the remainder of the debt was not forthcoming, At first Graham detied the gambler, but when he saw some days afterward a statoment im tue newspapers that “the President of af Ulster county bank’’ had been seen playing faro in the house men- tioned he weakened, and, tearing that his name would be given to the public, he agreed to pay the amount ip instalments, which he subsequently did, | THE SECURITY SAVINGS BANK, The receiver of the Security Savings Bank filed am other report yesterday in the County Clerk's office, the principal items of whica are as follows:—Cash regerved up to March 1, . * . | bianca itt ‘ca tol “hein paki i | Sonc00 ries $824,007 S45, deheeaay, \